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[–] Broc_Lia ago 

I'm an anarchist and I hate the government. Nation states need to go the way of monarchism and feudalism.

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[–] aeoo ago  (edited ago)

Nation states will go the way of the dodo when we have a compassionate and caring culture. So long as some people want a big advantage over the others, we're going to have struggle, and so long as struggle exists, people will want to put parameters on that struggle and chain that struggle inside a structure of bureaucratic formality to keep it as far away from most people as is possible.

We're not even slightly close to the possibility of governance structures just disappearing. If nation states disappear in the present cultural climate the power vacuum will be filled by corporate enclaves and/or mafias of various kinds.

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[–] Broc_Lia ago 

I'm not arguing whether they will or not, I'm arguing that they should. That said, the collapse of the nationstate is a real possibility in the near future: Distributed and heavily encrypted communications/financial transaction methods make it possible for people to live outside of their grasp. Just look at what peer to peer filesharing did to copyrights. Now imagine that happening to banks.

And I'd take private entities over public ones any day. I have far more leverage over the private ones and I can compete against them if they get too uppity.